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To: Helms
Reading notes:

While the psychopath has likes and dislikes and fondness for the pleasures that human company can bring, analysis shows that he is completely egocentric, valuing others only for their enhancement of his own pleasure or status. While he gives no real love, he is quite capable of inspiring love of sometimes fanatical degree in others. He is generally superficially charming and often makes a striking impression as possessed of the noblest of human qualities. He makes friends easily, and is very manipulative, using his ability with words to talk his way out of trouble. Many psychopaths love to be admired and bask in the adulation of others. With the lack of love, there is also a lack of empathy. The psychopath is unable to feel sorry for others in unfortunate situations or put himself in another's place, whether or not they have been harmed by him.

This identically parallels the symptoms of "attachment disorder", a disorder common in orphanage babies and children of parents with "attachment disorder". Experiments with monkeys in the early seventies showed that baby monkeys deprived of maternal nurturing in their infancy developed severe anti-social behaviors. (FWIW)

30 posted on 08/12/2004 3:27:16 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Keep your kids safe; keep W in the White House.)
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To: TaxRelief
This identically parallels the symptoms of "attachment disorder

Yes it does. In fact children with reactive attachment disorder are nothing more than child psychopaths. Having parented one, I can speak personally for this.

35 posted on 08/12/2004 3:44:10 PM PDT by MarMema
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